Single Crystal Report based on Five different SAP BEx Quries.

Hi,
I need to create 5 different Charts (in a single report) based on five different SAP BW BEx Queries. These are charts with 3- axes i.e. X,Y,Z.
The example requirement is to create Line charts (Vertical Mixed Line Charts) and deatils are as follows: The chart should show CPU Utilization % for different servers (eg. Servers1,2,3,4,5) for each day in a particular month.
Axes details:
X- Axis - Date eg: 01 /09/2010 to 30/09/2010
Y-Axis - CPU Utilisation Percent
Z-Axis - Servers from 1 to 5
The above detailed chart comes from a BEx Query . In this way there are four more BEx queries which should give four other charts.
My queries are:
1. Is this possible to create a single report using five different BEx queries and Create 5 different charts(one chart from each BEx Query) in a single tab as in the current manual report.(All the five Line charts should be downloadable to a single sheet in Excel)
2. One more, should I use Crystal Reports only? The charts are of high format natute so Web Intelligence will not produce the same. Is any other tool that helps for this requirement.
3. I can create five different Universes based on BEx Queries. Is this possible to create a single report from five different Universes.
Please advise.
Nanda Kishore.
Edited by: Nanda Kishore B on Oct 21, 2010 8:05 AM

To start with you cannot use SAP BW universes in Crystal Reports., YOu have to use the BW MDX driver.
For performance reasons I would suggest to add 4 subreports into your main reports containing each on of the 4 remaining charts.
Regards,
Stratos

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